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<h2>Welcome to Spring Travel</h2>
<p>
 	This reference application illustrates <a href="http://www.springframework.org/faces">Spring Faces</a>,
 	a software library that integrates Spring and JavaServerFaces technology in a portlet environment.
</p>
<p>
	The key features illustrated in this sample include:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>A declarative navigation model enabling full browser button support and dynamic navigation rules</li>
	<li>A fine-grained state management model, including support for ConversationScope and ViewScope</li>
	<li>Modularization of web application functionality by domain use case, illustrating project structure best-practices</li>
	<li>Managed persistence contexts with the Java Persistence API (JPA)</li>
	<li>Unified Expression Language (EL) integration</li>
	<li>Declarative page authoring with Facelets, including applying reusable page layouts</li>	
	<li>Exception handling support across all layers of the application</li>
	<li>Spring IDE tooling integration, with support for graphical flow modeling and visualization</li>
</ul>
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	<h:form>
	<h:commandLink action="main">Start your Spring Travel experience</h:commandLink>
	</h:form>
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